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Fußach
© Copyright Protest march in Fußach on November 21, 1964 on the occasion of the naming of the ship "Vorarlberg". Fußach, Vorarlberg, municipality in the district of Bregenz, alt. 398 m, pop. 3,073 (1981: pop. 2,655), area 11.50 km2, situated on the south shore of Lake Constance in the Rhine delta; production of steel structures (e.g. silos) machine-building, embroidery industry, shipyard (Österreichische Schiffswerften AG). Formerly Austria's most important port and trading centre on Lake Constance; ever since the Rhine through-cut (1900), silt has been accumulating in the bay; nature and bird life preserve of the Rhine delta. "Fußach" became a political slogan when 20,000 Vorarlberger demonstrated against Minister O. Probst on November 21, 1964 in the shipyard and succeeded in renaming a new ship for Lake Constance "Vorarlberg" instead of "Karl Renner".
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